Now Your Messages Land Right Where Your Members Are

Push notifications and rich messages come to Broadcasts

A new kind of reach

When we launched Messaging, the goal was simple: to keep your whole church connected through the week, not just on Sundays. Now the tool you already use to reach your congregation can do something new — deliver your message as a push notification, straight to your members' phones.

This is rolling out now as part of the Messaging beta. Please watch the quick video below:

A message that actually gets seen

Emails are easy to miss. They sit in a crowded inbox, get buried under everything else, and often go unread for days.

Now, when you send a Broadcast, you can choose to push it as a notification to every member who has the Hubb app installed, is logged in, and has notifications switched on. The moment you hit send, your update appears right on their phone — the same place they see messages from family and friends.

Whether it's a last-minute venue change, an urgent prayer request, a word of encouragement to the whole congregation, or a simple reminder about Sunday, your words reach people where they already are.

Beautiful messages, not just plain text

Your messages are not limited to plain text anymore. You can now send rich, formatted content — headings, links, images and styled text — so your communication looks as good as it reads.

That means a weekly bulletin can actually feel like a bulletin, an event announcement can carry the image that brings it to life, and an important update can be laid out clearly and read at a glance.

Getting set up

Push notifications are part of the Messaging beta, so there are two quick things to switch on first:

• Sign up to the Messaging beta for your church.
• Enable a mailing channel — head to Admin → Config → Consent and turn on a Broadcasts channel.

Once that is done, Broadcasts will appear as a messaging channel when you create a new message, and you can send to your members in line with their consent and preferences.

What your members need

For a member to receive a push notification, they will need to:

• Have the Hubb app installed
• Be logged in to your church's app
• Have notifications enabled on their device

Once that is in place, they are set to receive everything you send.

Part of something bigger

Broadcasts are just one part of our biggest Messaging update yet — a whole new way to keep your church connected through the week:

• Messaging — simple, secure one-to-one and group chat for your teams, ministries and leadership groups.
• Safe Messaging — a safe, controlled way for your children's and youth leaders to stay in touch with young people, with full parental approval and audit logs at its heart.
• Broadcasts — rich, formatted messages that land as a push notification right on your members' phones.

It is all built into the app you already use, with no extra apps to manage and nothing complicated to set up. A single connected way to reach your whole church: the right message, in the right format, landing right where people will see it.

Read the full blog post about Messaging and Safe Messaging.